This year has been an ordeal - nothing short of it, blood in various locations and frequencies and now pus! It seems bodily fluids are intent on destroying that last bit of sanity that I cling to.....
Our little cat - Lady Penelope PLC (purrs loudly and constantly or pretty little cat) was taken severely ill on Friday last - hardly breathing I rushed her to the vets only to learn that she was hanging on by a thread - my world was collapsing. However, they drained 250ml of pus from her lungs and she is now in intensive care. They are fantastic there. She is progressing well and I will go visit her today. It seems that the infection was caused by something she breathed in or by something that got stuck in her fur and then travelled through her skin and into her lungs - the latter is megga ew and I really don't want to think about it. Parker (our other cat and her half brother) is very lonely, but getting lots of tlc. We hope she will be home by mid next week, but apparently it is quite common for a relapse to occur.
She is my gorgeous little baby girl and only 5, this on top of my Mum (83yrs old) coming out of hospital after suffering a severe nose bleed which kept her in for 2 days, her cat being ill and not given long to live and a pals husband dying of cancer after an 8 year battle during which he showed immense courage and determination to live a normal life and give his family fun times to remember. There are hero's everywhere and he was one of them.
I am not alone in this annus horribilus and Her in the Palace would say, it seems that the world has gone a bit upside down this year. Fingers crossed that it will turn itself right again soon.
Music is still sustaining me and today is Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road, Meeting across the river etc - combined with a bit of Steve Reich and a Mozart string quartet.
Food will be healthy fish baked in chilli oil with fresh veg and salad. Followed by a deliciously ripe mango! Solace indeed.
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